calamus
3 synonyms for calamus, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A marsh plant with sword-shaped leaves, also known as sweet flag.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
quill
flagroot
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”). Doublet of culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), qalam, and shawm.
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